2 Peter 3:5

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For they wilfully shut their eyes to the fact that long ago the heavens existed; and the earth, also--formed out of water and by the action of water, by the fiat of God;

Cross References

Romans 1:28

Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.

Colossians 1:17

All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;

Hebrews 11:3

Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God--so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things.